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The Chesapeake City Museum, an idea around 40 years in the making, finally opened to the public Saturday. The museum, at 98 Bohemia Avenue is dedicated to showing the history of the town, with over 1,000 items in its archives. Many of the items were first collected by longtime resident Harriett Davis, who first came up with the idea of creating a museum to showcase the town’s history. Davis, a member of the Chesapeake City District Civic Association who passed away in 2020, had boxes of it...

By Carl Hamilton cahamilton@cecilwhig.com Apr 29, 2021 PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMANTHA MALLOY  A neighbor captured this photo of a Cherry Lane house on fire, just moments after the blaze was intentionally set Thursday afternoon. CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY CARL HAMILTON  Firefighters battle a blaze in the unit block of Cherry Lane, northeast of Elkton, on Thursday afternoon. CECIL WHIG PHOTO BY CARL HAMILTON  Averee Hammond, 24, and Travis Sellers, 25, were doing work across the street when t...

CHESAPEAKE CITY — Even if they are still setting up displays, volunteers are determined that that Chesapeake City Museum will open Saturday. “We’ve spent the last year getting this ready to go,” said Rowan Cloud, curator of the museum at 98 Bohemia Avenue. “There have been plans for a Chesapeake City Museum since the 1980s.” Those plans included Harriet Davis, who died in June 2020. Davis was known in town for her civic passion, which included leading the Historic ...